Bottle feeding and growt spurt - help!

[daisyhun]

Hi

Sorry if this seems basic but I'm a new mum with a crap health visitor (see previous thread re health visitor recommending controlled crying for up to an hour for a 4 weeks old baby and telling me off for cuddling her too much - needless to say I am in the process of changing HV's)and I need some advice!

I think my now 6 week old dd is having a growt spurt - I am bottle feeding mainly but breast feeding for 2 feeds at night/early morn. When bottle feeding do I need to give her the bottle more often or just increase the amount of feed I offer her? She is taking a lot more from each feed now.

She also woke 3 times instead of the usual one last night for a breast feed - I am paranoid that my milk supply is drying up with breast feeding so little but I think it may be a growth spurt given the increase in feeding during the day too.

Any advice welcome!

hello! gawd i think we're all affected by rubbiosh hv's at times and certianly don't listen to that hv for telling youoff for supposedly cuddling too much - wtf???????? babies need their moms to cuddle them to feel secure ffs (fm takes deep breath - rant over)

anyway.

you don't say how many ozs in the bottle?

I'm giving her 6oz now - she takes in total about 19oz for 4 feeds plus 2 breast feeds. I just wondered, if she seems hungry before feeding time do I feed her or hold off til usual feeding time?

HV said hold off til usual feeding time to prevent her snacking and just taking a few ounces every couple of hours but that was before this increase in ounces (she was only takng 4 oz per feed back then).

at that age i go for feed them when they are hungrey, they can't tell the time. it makes for a queiter life if they are feeding rather than yelling about how hungrey they are and they don;t understand waiting.
chucking in an extra night feed as well does surgest they want a bit more milk than they were getting. In a "few" days things will probadly settle down as your milk changes composistion to suit new needs, tho I'm not sure how it works with formula as that can't change. Maybe some one wiser than I on the feeding board can help.